girls:
17 births since 1971
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
14.7k births since 1897
#963 (79th percentile)
overall:
14.7k births since 1897
#2167 (72nd percentile)
The name Bryon is the #2,167 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,703 recorded births since 1897. This represents the 72.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #963 (79.0% percentile) for all time with 14,686 births since 1897. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 1971.
Bryon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1897 (1897 for boys and 1971 for girls). Birth data for Bryon is available in 105 out of the 127 years between 1897 and 2023 (105 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bryon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Bryon reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 46.3% percentile (ranked #359) with 237 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 252 births per million (ranked 45.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1974, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Bryon ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 3.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Bryon reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #773) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bryon".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bryon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.4% confident that Bryon is pronounced as BRAI-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BREE-uhn, at 11.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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